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Dear ARLIS colleagues, As the ARLIS-Archaeological Institute of America liaison, I wanted to share some news about this AIA's annual conference and encourage you to become involved, especially if you work with patrons and collections related to the ancient arts, architecture, and archaeology of the Mediterranean. The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and its sister organization, Society for Classical Studies (SCS), will hold the joint annual meeting virtually on January 5 -10, 2021. For registration and other information about the January 2021 meetings as the details become available, please check https://www.archaeological.org/programs/professionals/annual-meeting/. Under the circumstances, they are offering reduced registration rates ($75 for AIA and SCS members, $85 for non-members, and even lower rates for students, K-12 teachers, and unemployed/contingent participants), which makes this a wonderful opportunity for ARLIS members who are curious about the content of the AIA and SCS joint annual meetings to participate. The program is not announced yet (a preliminary schedule usually appears in November), but you can check out the program from the last annual meeting here: https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-AM-Program-Body-Online.pdf where you will see that paper sessions and colloquia cover a wide range of topics related to the ancient Mediterranean. Among the open business meetings and sessions I would highly recommend to ARLIS members who decide to participate in the upcoming annual meeting: * Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications (FCLSC) is an interest group, formally within the SCS, that offers an open 2-hour business meeting that discusses a range of topics of interest to librarians who support Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology. * The new Digital Archaeology Interest Group within the AIA will have its first 1-hour business meeting and will welcome anyone and everyone interested in topics such as OA and e-pubs, frameworks for sharing data, use of mixed-reality technologies, and the impact of technologies on epistemology. * The Ancient Makerspaces sessions (this year organized by FCLSC) combine lightning-round talks with hands-on demonstrations about digital scholarship, digital resources, and computational methods for the study of the ancient world. For the AIA-SCS annual meetings in January 2022, scheduled to be in lovely San Francisco, I would like to propose a special session on "open resources for classical art and archaeology," which could be co-sponsored by ARLIS together with either the Digital Archaeology Interest Group or the librarians' Forum (FCLSC). A CFP for such special session would circulate in late January-February 2021, and the proposal and all participants' abstracts due to the AIA by mid-March, so, if you are interested in being involved, regardless of whether you can attend in January 2021, please let me know. Sending you all best wishes, Deb Deborah Brown Stewart (she/her/hers) Head, Penn Museum Library ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~